Valve's Game Networking Sockets prior to version v1.2.0 improperly handles long unreliable segments in function SNP_ReceiveUnreliableSegment() when configured to support plain-text messages, leading to a Heap-Based Buffer Overflow and resulting in a memory corruption and possibly even a remote code execution.
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Status: PUBLISHED

Assigner: checkpoint

Published: 2020-12-03T13:34:00

Updated: 2024-08-04T08:47:40.930Z

Reserved: 2020-01-07T00:00:00

Link: CVE-2020-6017

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Status : Analyzed

Published: 2020-12-03T14:15:11.020

Modified: 2022-04-12T16:19:16.723

Link: CVE-2020-6017

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